noun
a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
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olive drab
adjective
lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
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Examples
- her drab personality
- life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
- a series of dreary dinner parties
adjective
lacking brightness or color
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- dull
- drab faded curtains
- sober Puritan grey
- children in somber brown clothes
adjective
of a light brownish green color
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olive-drab
adjective
causing dejection
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Examples
- a blue day
- the dark days of the war
- a week of rainy depressing weather
- a disconsolate winter landscape
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November
- a dark gloomy day
- grim rainy weather